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wittily

/ˈwɪtɪli/

wittily adverb: in a witty manner; using wit.

Adverb

wittily (comparative more wittily, superlative most wittily)

  1. in a witty manner; using wit
    • [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146
    • When the mismatch is too great, baby can't get his mouth around the nipple and deep enough into the aureola to adequately draw milk. Deanne Francis, B.S.N., IBCLC, wittily refers to this condition as "oroboobular disproportion."2008, Diana West, Lisa Marasco, The Breastfeeding Mother’s Guide to Making More Milk, pages 107-108

wittily meaning in Malayalam

wittily in Malayalam

ചടുലമായി, ഫലിതമായി

Examples of wittily in a sentence

  • McCain, laboring under the misapprehension that he was wittily skewering his opponent, compulsively invoked the Obama-patented mantra of “change” 33 times in his speech.2008 June 8, Frank Rich, “One Historic Night, Two Americas”, in New York Times:
  • He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300:

Forms of wittily

comparativemore wittily
superlativemost wittily

Origin of wittily

From Middle English wittily, wyttyly, wittiliche, equivalent to witty + -ly.

Questions about wittily

What does wittily mean?
Wittily means in a witty manner; using wit.
What is wittily in Malayalam?
Wittily in Malayalam is ചടുലമായി, ഫലിതമായി. See Wittily meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use wittily in a sentence?
McCain, laboring under the misapprehension that he was wittily skewering his opponent, compulsively invoked the Obama-patented mantra of “change” 33 times in his speech.
What part of speech is wittily?
Wittily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce wittily?
Wittily is pronounced /ˈwɪtɪli/.

Words near wittily in the dictionary

  1. Wittig
  2. Wittig reaction
  3. Wittig reactions
  4. Wittigian
  5. Wittigs
  6. wittily
  7. wittiness
  8. wittinesses
  9. witting
  10. wittingite
  11. wittingly

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